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In 2022, it is recorded that more than one billion people in the world suffer from some type of psychological disorder.
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It is predicted that by 2030 mental health will be the leading cause of disability in the world.
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In 2020, depression and anxiety already cost the world economy close to a trillion dollars.
Mental health is an issue that has become very important in recent years throughout the world. Under that premise, a Facebook worker will denounce Meta for harming his mental health with the work he did in the technology company.
Currently, mental health is a social problem that many governments and companies in the world are taking seriously. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 350 million people worldwide live with depression and one in 4 people will suffer from a mental problem throughout their lives.
In Mexico, according to the 2020 census, conducted by ehe National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), throughout the national territory there are one million 590 thousand 583 people with some problem or mental condition. And data from the federal government, only two out of 10 people with a mental problem or condition that requires care get it, and those who manage to get care do not always receive adequate care.
Facebook worker will denounce Meta
The case of Daniel Motaung is going around the world, after pointing out that Meta paid him $2.20 per hour to review posts that included beheadings and child abuse on Facebook.
According to these functions, the employee of the technology company decided to sue the company, as reported by a Kenyan labor court.
Likewise, international media have reported that Meta argues that the Kenyan court does not have jurisdiction because the company is not based in the African country. Motaung is also suing his then-employer, Sama, who had contracted the company to do post review work.
The justice defined that Meta and Sama are “appropriate parties” in the case, for which the former worker will denounce Facebook. For his part, the head of Amnesty International Kenya, Irungu Houghton, told the BBC World Service Focus on Africa programme: “We are very pleased with the ruling. It is not only historic, but also globally significant.”
In his complaint, Motaung said that the first graphic video he saw was “a live video of someone being beheaded.”
Likewise, in statements in May 2022 for the BBC that he suffers flashbacks in which he imagines that he is the victim, since he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and he believes that his co-workers also had problems with the content they had to watch.
“I would see people coming off the production floor to cry, you know, that kind of thing,” he said.
At that, Meta refused to comment, but legal campaign group Foxglove awaits an appeal. Let’s remember, that in 2020Meta paid $52 million to settle a case brought by content moderators from the United States, the case involves mental health problems developed at work.
The social network Facebook employs thousands of moderators to review content flagged by users or feedback systems. artificial intelligence, so the process assesses whether it violates the platform’s community standards and removes it if necessary.
In conclusion, the increase in time in the use of social networks such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Tiktok, is a relatively recent habit, so we are still trying to understand the effects of this new form of social interaction in different populations.
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